.... the woman. Turing’s motivation for creating the Imitation Game was not in line with gender issues so, to answer the question, “Can machines think?” the man (given as A) is substituted for a machine.2 The type of machine used is limited to a digital computer. This is by no means a limitation as foreseen by Turing that “in about fifty years time one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted”.3 Speaking of machines thinking is one thing but a computer passing Turing’s imitation game, now known as ‘The Loebner Prize’4 is another, presently unaccomplished feat. In summary o .....

.... room, there were television sets displaying the latest and greatest games for each popular console. While watching these new games, I was in awe. When I was younger, I remembered playing what those times considered, "high tech" video games. During those years, the games had little blocky characters who looked more like a blob than a human being. The music wasn't even music at all. It was more of a bunch of beeping at different pitches. These characters walked around and jumped over other blocky characters in a two dimensional environment. The new games that I observed, however, were being played right off a CD. The c .....

.... know how they work and what the parts are. All computers perform the four basic operations of the information processing cycle: input, process, output, and storage. Data, any kind of raw facts, is required for the processing cycle to occur. Data is processed into useful information by the computer hardware. Most computer systems consist of a monitor, a system unit which contains the Central Processing Unit (CPU), a floppy-disk drive, a CD-ROM drive, speakers, a keyboard, a mouse, and a printer. Each component takes a part in one of the four operations. The keyboard and mouse are input devices that a person uses to enter data .....

.... are referred to as monoplanes, while those with two sets are called biplanes. To help fly the airplane, the wings have two types of control surfaces attached to the rear, or trailing, edges. They are referred to as ailerons and flaps. Ailerons extend from about the midpoint of each wing outward to the tip. They move in opposite directions - when one aileron goes up, the other goes down. Flaps extend outward from the fuselage to the midpoint of each wing. They always move in the same direction. If one flap is down, the other one is also down. The empennage consists of the vertical stabilizer, or fin, and the horizont .....

.... have been used for most kinds of crime, including fraud, theft, larceny, embezzlement, burglary, sabotage, espionage, murder, and forgery, since the first cases were reported in 1958. One study of 1,500 computer crimes established that most of them were committed by trusted computer users within businesses; persons with the requisite skills, knowledge, access, and resources. Much of known computer crime has consisted of entering false data into computers, which is simpler and safer than the complex process of writing a program to change data already in the computer. With the advent of personal computers to manipulat .....

.... Home appliances will be linked to the computer. Imagine driving home from work and calling your computer and having it start dinner for you. Have it adjust the temperature so your home will be a comfortable temperature when you arrive. Window covering will be adjusted to allow the correct amount of sunlight in. Light fixtures will automatically adjust to the right level of light in your home. The way of business conducted be entirely changed. Instead of long distance business trips, business will be conducted via interactive tele- conferences. Documents and files will be stored on computers hard drives. Much of this is done .....

.... They have databases consisting of airline fares, routes, and travel times, and allow for users to make flight reservations on line. Through on line services, users are able to check, buy, and sell stocks and bonds through brokers. The services provide entertainment through games, contests, and movie reviews. Finally, a huge breakthrough for consumers and marketers worldwide, shopping on line has been made possible, as people can shop for just about anything with a credit card. E-Mail E-Mail is an abbreviation for electronic mail, which is a faster and less ex-pensive way of sending letters and documents than posta .....

.... available route at the time they are travelling. 'Routers' which are boxes of circuit boards and microchips, which do the essential task of directing and redirecting packets along the network. Much smaller boxes of circuit boards and microchips called 'modems' do the task of interpreting between the phone lines and the computer. The packets are all switched into a destination and reassembled by the destination computer. Today's Internet contains enough repetitious and interconnected circuits simply to reroute the data if any portion of the network goes down or gets overloaded. The packet-switching nature of the Internet g .....

.... armor is to be impervious to a bullet. The function of ceramic armor is to slow the bullet abruptly by the hardness of the ceramic and to dissipate the bullet's energy as it destroys the armor at the point of impact; the tiles or plates of ceramic bulletproof vest thus have to be replaced once they have stopped a bullet. The textile vest deforms the bullet and then dissipates its energy, entangling it in the vest's many layers. A textile bulletproof vest is fashioned of sixteen to twenty-four layers of nylon cloth of a heavy weave, the layers stitched together like quilt. Any ordinary pistol or sub-machine gun bullet .....

.... continuously over a period of time, making exact answers difficult or impossible to obtain. Digital computers are capable of providing exact answers to problems. The basic concept of a computer is very simple. A computer processes step by step, performing one operation at a time. For example, a computer reads a number from memory, stores it, reads another number from memory, stores it, retrieves the first number, adds it to the second, and writes the answer into memory. This is a computers way of adding two numbers. The process just described may seem slow and tedious. The average computer, however, can add two numbers in 1/100,000 .....